Power BI Weekly

Issue #3 - 16th April 2019

Plenty of updates this week as we've received our monthly summary of the latest Power BI Desktop Release. If you wanted to recap all the major announcements and updates from the last month, take a look at the Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary. Here are the rest of this week's updates, including numerous regarding Power BI Embedded:

Also in this week's edition, the RADACAD team has announced you can now Copy a workspace, Publish to Multiple workspaces, Download all PBIX files and do much more in the April Edition of Power BI Helper, and Patrick Leblanc has shown us how to Create a custom KPI Card in a Power BI report.

🛠️ Data Prep

On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@Rad_Reza) covers Exception Reporting in Power Query and Power BI; Part 2 Catching Error Rows for All Columns in the Table Section 1
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) highlights that Table.Buffer() Does Not Buffer Nested Values
Jeff Lenning (@Exceluniversity) explains how to Stop Wasting Time 2
Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) writes about Power Query – How to extract data before and after delimiters
On the Powered Solutions blog, Miguel Escobar (@EscobarMiguel90) explains how to Combine or Append Data in Power BI / Power Query: Main Concepts
Also on the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@Rad_Reza) describes What Is the XMLA Endpoint for Power BI and Why Should I Care?
On the Power BI community blog, catdor provides some Tips and Tricks for Automated Machine Learning reports
On the DB Best blog, DeNisha Malone (@thepowerbiqueen) presents Power BI — Eliminate Unnecessary Columns — Episode 2

🧩 Data Modeling

On the Enterprise DNA blog, Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) describes Layering Multiple Scenarios Analysis Using DAX in Power BI
Matt Allington (@ExceleratorBI) writes about Simple Filters and Syntax Sugar in DAX

⚙️ Report Design and Visualizations

On the RADACAD blog, Leila Etaati (@leila_etaati) explains how to apply more Analytics on your data with Key Influencer Custom Visual
On the MSSQLTips site, Rahul Mehta blogs about Power BI Dynamic Conditional Formatting
Patrick Leblanc (@patrickdba) explains how to Create a custom KPI Card in a Power BI report
David Eldersveld (@dataveld) shares some Map Demos from the Power Platform World Tour in Chicago
On the Enterprise DNA blog, Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) writes about Advanced Budgeting Insights in Power BI – FREE Training Workshop
The Azure updates team describes how to Take action from ‘Button clicked’ in Power BI Embedded
On the Power BI blog, Christopher Finlan (@cmfinlan) highlights that Paginated Reports now supported in Apps in Power BI and explains how to Create your first table export report from a Power BI Dataset in Paginated Report Builder
Patrick Leblanc (@patrickdba) has A quick look at the new Power BI Report Builder

🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations

On the Power BI blog, Kay Unkroth talks about Privacy Levels for Cloud Data Sources
Also on the Power BI blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) writes about Governance settings for Power BI cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services
The Azure updates team highlights the New Power BI Embedded code samples available in April 2019, writes that TLS 1.2 Recommended for Power BI Embedded applications, writes that the Refresh Now API provides unlimited data refresh for Power BI Embedded and highlights that Multi Geo is now generally available for Power BI Embedded
On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@Rad_Reza) writes Copy workspace, Publish to Multiple workspaces, Download all PBIX files, and much more in Power BI Helper April Edition and blogs about Register Power BI Helper in Your Tenant
Adam Saxton (@guyinacube) discusses The new Power BI App Workspace experience

🌐 General

On the Power BI blog, Nikhil Gaekwad (@NikhilGaekwad) provides the Power BI Service and Mobile March 2019 Feature Summary
Also on the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky (@MissAmandaN) provides the April 2019 Power BI Desktop Release
Also on the Power BI blog, David Magar highlights the New Power BI Regions in France and in Korea
Also on the Power BI blog, Miguel Martinez (@maikelson) writes that the "Mayor of the Internet" Alexis Ohanian to keynote Microsoft Business Applications Summit
Adam Saxton (@guyinacube) talks about So many Power BI Updates, Workspaces, Dataflows, Report Builder and more April 8, 2019
Also on the Power BI blog, Arun Ulag (@arunulag) writes that Industry Benchmark Recognizes Microsofts Unmatched Analytics
On the BIFocal podcast, John White and Jason Himmelstein (@bifocalshow) present Episode 95 - Holy Power BI news
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) and Manuel Quintana (@SQLRican) present the Power BI Monthly Digest – April 2019
On the Blue Granite blog, Katy Ghormley writes that Microsoft's Power Platform Enables Deep Analysis and Easy Insight